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That is incredible. A pea sized meteor being able to send a kid flying...
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Imagine a bowling ball sized meteor...
OH SHI-

Looks like it could've caught in his hair, actually.

At 6/12/09 03:36 PM, Rockyusa wrote: Imagine a bowling ball sized meteor...
OH SHI-

Like the 8.5 lb meteorite that hit a woman in Alabama?

BTW, that's the same story referenced in the news article.

Any pictures of the crater?
Or did the pictures come out blurry for some reason?

He is probably trying to get attention so he dug a hole in the ground and cut his hand open.

lucky!

I'm jealous.

At 6/12/09 02:39 PM, Skwurll wrote:

At 6/12/09 02:34 PM, xports wrote:
Discuss how lucky this boy is.

Yes, because getting hit by a rock from outer space makes you "lucky"

a lucky person wouldn't have gotten hit

Remember what happened 65 million years ago? Have you seen the Armageddon movie? That dujde is one lucky bastard to survive such a thing. After all, luck also affects one's ability to evade dangerous situations.

Fuck, if a tiny ass speck of rock made a foot crater, imagine what a meteorite the size of a boulder would make.

OOOOH....FUCK.

At 6/12/09 03:29 PM, ImlunchBoxx wrote: i feel lucky as that could have been me

I donated 110 grains of rice to a hungry person because of you. ZOMG I feel so nice!

Chances of being struck by a meteorite are around one in 100 million.

This kid should really start playing the lottery...

the kids lucky it just knocked him down and didnt take his hand off

At 6/12/09 04:45 PM, IceFireMudDragon wrote: Fuck, if a tiny ass speck of rock made a foot crater, imagine what a meteorite the size of a boulder would make.

OOOOH....FUCK.

You mean this?

Reminds me of dead like me...

Oh shit, ADVANCED SCOUTS!

Only 30,000mph and he didn't have the reaction time to avoid it.... What a noob :(

At 6/12/09 02:38 PM, wismty wrote: Did it give him super powers, like Uma Truman on that one movie?

kill bill? nah she had to drain with that monk who had a sweet beard. The monks the one that got hit tho.

Luckiest unlucky mother fuker EVERRR

Note that I didn't fully read the article.

That kid is lucky.

Now he can keep that meteorite as a treasure and for bragging rights.

At 6/12/09 02:56 PM, Shnam wrote: I don't understand how it bounced off his hand. If it was going so fast would it not just go through it?

P = mv

Momentum = mass x velocity

If the meteorite was to go through the kid's hand, it would have to have a lot of momentum.

The velocity (30,000 mph) was high; HOWEVER, what is the mass? If it was under 5 grams, then yeah, it would bounce off. Remember though, the velocity was HUGE so that explains the crater. Depending on the angle that the meteor has struck, the kid could have fell to the ground (which he did I believe).

I bet most of the damn meteorite was burned in the atmosphere anyway. If we weren't fucking up the atmosphere with Carbon Dioxide and shit, I bet that meteorite would have burned away 100%.

Take this comparison and compare it in a LARGER scale.

A grapefruit-sized meteor crashed through the roof of a house in Alabama, in the USA, in 1954.
After smashing through the top of the building, it bounced off furniture and then hit a woman who was asleep at the time.

WTF is this shit? Was this REAL? I'm going to hell for laughing at that. No wait, I'm going to get hit by a football field-sized meteor for that.

Of all the places in the solar system, women found grapefruit-sized meteorite from space in her bed? LMAO.

At 6/12/09 03:04 PM, SymbolCymbal wrote: I fail to believe a meteor that size could have left a 1 foot crater... its terminal velocity would not allow it to go that fast... the meteor would have to be bigger to leave a crater like that.. i call bullshit

Initial velocity & 9.8 m/s squared caused it to go that fast.

You can explain a lot of unbelievable bullshit with Science. It's quite impressive actually.

Also, space has no gravity so really, the Earth's gravity wouldn't exactly explain everything. Velocity plays a role in here still.

At 6/12/09 03:08 PM, WingCommand wrote: And we are talking about it coming from space. That's a lot of atmospheric levels to go through.

And that is how the meteorite came that small. Friction from the atmosphere.

And we are slowly destroying the atmosphere.

Oh shit I used 2 fanboys to start 2 sentences.

At 6/12/09 06:04 PM, tiskewl wrote: Only 30,000mph and he didn't have the reaction time to avoid it.... What a noob :(

In comparison from the distance the atmosphere is from the kid, it's like the speed of light; almost instant. Really, how would you know that something was headed to you. Someone may throw you a rock going at, what, 5 miles per hour and people will ask you 'How did you not avoid that?'.

Question: Is it momentum or Newton's 2nd law?

Well this kid is going to be popular now...

At 6/12/09 02:34 PM, xports wrote: Teen hit by meteorite traveling 30.000 mph.
The white-hot meteorite bounced off the schoolboy's hand and hit the ground so hard it left a foot-long crater in the tarmac - as well as a three-inch scar on his hand.

Discuss how lucky this boy is.

There's some kind of book full of strange statistics floating around somewhere about the chances of getting hit by a meteorite.

At 6/12/09 07:33 PM, SuperMarioBrosS wrote: WTF is this shit? Was this REAL? I'm going to hell for laughing at that. No wait, I'm going to get hit by a football field-sized meteor for that.

Yeah, I've seen it. It's on display in Huntsville, Alabama.

At 6/12/09 07:33 PM, SuperMarioBrosS wrote:

At 6/12/09 06:04 PM, tiskewl wrote: Only 30,000mph and he didn't have the reaction time to avoid it.... What a noob :(

In comparison from the distance the atmosphere is from the kid, it's like the speed of light; almost instant. Really, how would you know that something was headed to you. Someone may throw you a rock going at, what, 5 miles per hour and people will ask you 'How did you not avoid that?'.

It was a joke stupid... I don't expect some kid to be able to avoid a meteorite moving at 30,000mph... that is a bit excessive no need to troll me, you can just either think it was or wasn't funny and move on with your life.

At 6/12/09 02:54 PM, WingCommand wrote: No, it most likely hit him, started to push down on his hand, and just grind along his hand. The boy said that it knocked him over.

You don't get knocked over by bullets, it's one of Newton's Law. I'm not a science guy, but I know enough that I think I can call bullshit on this story.

At 6/12/09 03:03 PM, Sheizenhammer wrote: Then again, chemical tests apparently proved that this thing is in fact from outer space, and I don't see how someone could just go and get such a rock for the purposes of fabricating a story like this.

It probably just didn't even hit him. He saw it crash, the rest of the story was fabricated.

I liked it better when only one person was ever hit by a meteorite.

That's gotta hurt! I feel sorry for the boy!

At 6/12/09 02:36 PM, esko-man wrote: Since it him him does he get to keep it? Good thing it wasn't any bigger than that..

Well he was the one who discovered it, so it seems only fair.

Christ, that's a tiny piece of rock. You wouldn't think that something so small could cause that amount of damage... but it's not so shocking when it's travelling at that speed, I guess.

He's probably the only person ever to be hit by a meteriote. Recorded, at least. Amazing.

At 6/13/09 12:37 PM, Eggys wrote: He's probably the only person ever to be hit by a meteriote. Recorded, at least. Amazing.

Really? That's awesome!